'Defending the unborn', 'protecting women' and 'preserving culture and nation': anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press

dc.contributor.authorKoralewska, Inga
dc.contributor.authorZielinska, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-08T00:02:23Z
dc.date.available2024-03-08T00:02:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-10-16T07:26:04Z
dc.description.abstractPoland has one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe, and anti-abortion discourse shapes the debate and social attitudes towards the issue. The paper aims to reconstruct the way in which this discourse, as exemplified in the Polish right-wing press, constructs negative views about abortion and to identify the legitimation mechanisms it employs to sustain its interpretations. Based on our findings, resulting from a content analysis of articles from two right-wing weekly magazines, we distinguish three interrelated frames organising Polish anti-abortion discourse, centred on ‘defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’, and ‘preserving culture and nation’. While the first two have occurred in the liberal contexts of Anglophone countries, with one replacing the other, in Polish anti-abortion discourse they co-exist. The construction of abortion as a threat to culture and nation is specific to Poland. We argue that by blending together community-related and individualistic arguments, Polish anti-abortion discourse adapts to wider societal changes observable in the country, thereby sustaining its power to define debate.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was developed as part of the project“Public Discourse in Poland and Religion.Models of Legitimation in the Debates on Biopolitics between 2004 and 2014”, funded by thePolish National Science Centre (UMO-2014/13/B/HS6/03311).Open access to the article was financed from Jagiellonian University funds under theExcellence Initiative–Research University programme (Priority Research Area Heritage)en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1369-1058en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/315824
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativesLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction inany medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.CULTURE, HEALTH & SEXUALITY2022, VOL. 24, NO. 5, 673–687https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.1878559en_AU
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceCulture, Health and Sexualityen_AU
dc.subjectAbortionen_AU
dc.subjectdiscourseen_AU
dc.subjectPolanden_AU
dc.subjectright-wing pressen_AU
dc.title'Defending the unborn', 'protecting women' and 'preserving culture and nation': anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing pressen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue5en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage687en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage673en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKoralewska, Inga, OTH Other Departments, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationZielinska, Katarzyna, University of Krakowen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu7219898@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKoralewska, Inga, u7219898en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor441008 - Sociology of cultureen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB17912en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume24en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/13691058.2021.1878559en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85101042890
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000619322400001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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